Pine Bend
1885
Medium
Cyanotype
Dimensions
Image: 10 9/16 × 13 1/2 in. (26.8 × 34.3 cm), oval Sheet: 14 7/16 × 17 3/16 in. (36.7 × 43.7 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Acquisitions Fund and Mr. and Mrs. John A. Moran Gift, in memory of Louise Chisholm Moran, 2015
Accession Number
2015.39
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Henry P. Bosse · 1844–1893
Henry Peter Bosse was born in 1844 in Sonneberg, Prussia (now Germany), and immigrated to the United States around 1870. He settled in the Midwest and joined the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1874 as a draftsman. By the mid-1880s he had risen to chief draftsman in the Rock Island, Illinois, district, where he remained for the rest of his career. His dual expertise in engineering and visual docum...